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WORK: Henry David Thoreau on Making a Meaningful Living

The Next Big Idea

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How to Eliminate Drudgery in Your Life

Drudgery and struggle, strife is all around us. What advice would Thoreau give us to know if the scales have just tipped too far in the drudgery meaningless direction? I'm reminded of David Foster Wallace's comment when he says that the task of adult life is to get to 30 or 40 or 50 without wanting to put a gun to your head. Like it's not going to get better from here.

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